I consider it a privilege and a pleasure to work in the medical field, and have since my first day in the medical school in my native Poland. I trained in anesthesiology after a period of graduate-level research study in pharmacology at Oregon Health and Science University. Since 1998 I have been in clinical practice, starting at Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro, Oregon where I helped with development of a heart surgery program while maintaining a broad expertise in adult and pediatric anesthesia, with the emphasis on minimizing pain and stress of surgery by various techniques. I have had the opportunity to work in the department of anesthesiology at Kaiser Permanente Northwest since 2010.